Love | TARA LANEE DeSORBO &RICHARD THOMAS SIMPSON

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2007 | by Jennifer Dorazio Inquirer Staff Writer

Married

April 28 at St. Thomas of Villanova Church, on the Villanova University campus, with associate athletic director Rev. Robert Hagan presiding. A reception for 220 guests was held at the Montrose Mansion at the Villanova Conference Center in Radnor.

They met

In 1995, when Rick was Tara's swimming coach at Rutgers University. Their relationship was strictly a friendly one, and they kept in touch occasionally after Tara's graduation. "We shared so many common interests," says Rick, now 39. "But you establish a huge psychological boundary [as coach and student]."

About five years ago, a closer friendship began to take shape. But Tara, now 31, eschewed romance. "She was afraid of me," Rick...